Where the F does IDMerit even get all this data from? They have names, DOBs, addressed, phone numbers, national identity numbers for over a billion people? How?

The 1B number would contain multiple records per person.

For example if I (as a German in Germany, ymmv) open a bank account online that involves a call with one of these companies where they take pictures and information from my passport and check that that's me. Then I choose payment in installments on some online shop, same game. Apply for a small loan? Same game. Set up an account for trading (stock exchange or crypto)? You guessed it, another call. Another payment in installments, backed by the same bank? Apparently verifying my identity again is easier than checking their database. Each of those is another record. Potentially with a new identity document, address or even name (maybe you got married) but mostly just the same data confirmed again with another timestamp

Not all of them use the same identity verification service, but there aren't that many. And I wouldn't be surprised to learn that many are the same company under different brands

Makes sense if the ID verification process involves scanning a driver license or passport.

Edit- rereading this, you’re obviously talking about scale. The original article is much better : https://cybernews.com/security/global-data-leak-exposes-bill...

A record is not necessarily unique. Name changes, address changes, phone number changes, can all create "new" records in dumps like these.

You'll get used to it. 42 male here. Started at 12-13 years of age. Barely notice it anymore. Some things (lack of sleep, extreme stress, some medicines/drugs) accentuate it a bit, but it's annoying at best, not interfering. I also produce music, so I don't think it has affected my hearing. So you'll be good. Stop worrying.

Oh, use a fan based white noise machine (or a loud fan) during sleeping, really drowns it out.

I also should have mentioned this; despite having tinnitus my actual hearing is very good, and yeah a white noise or fan does wonders

I do that too. My reason is I don't want unneeded radiation. My experience is they make it as difficult as possible. They first ignore you couple of times, pretend they don't know what you are asking for, and finally they make you wait a long time, just standing there waiting for someone to show up to do the pat down. But I know their antics now and show up with plenty of time to spare.

It's been a while since I've flown, but it always seemed to help to not stand completely out of the way lest they forget about you. A bunch of people will ask if you if you're waiting to use the scanner, or even start queuing up behind you until the thugs direct them to go around you. But all this keeps the incentives aligned much better.

Same. I have never gone through a microwave scanner on principle- I shouldn’t be strip searched for the crime of showing up to the airport.

I always get there plenty early and request a pat down, because they always make you wait 10-15 minutes in the hope that you’re desperate to get to your gate.

" I shouldn’t be strip searched for the crime of showing up to the airport."

People have forgotten that the TSA got caught lying about the machines not taking pictures (its just a cartoon!) and their employees laughing at people's bodies.

If the TSA wants to disrobe me they're going to have to do it the honest, old fashioned way. Not some sterilized make believe.

I have never forgotten their lies and abuse with the scanners when they were rolled out. Same boat- you wanna see my body you gotta work for it.

> If the TSA wants to disrobe me they're going to have to do it the honest, old fashioned way. Not some sterilized make believe.

Or at least take me out on a date first

I always opt out, too, also because I don't trust their machines after reading enough stuff like https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/iaurm/cancer_clus... or https://www.propublica.org/article/u-s-government-glossed-ov... and then learning enough about how it was all for theater anyway.

Cool tech, but I don't want it scanning my junk especially, no thanks. I'll just apply Betteridge's law of headlines to the article "You Asked: Are Airport Body Scanners Safe?" at https://time.com/4909615/airport-body-scanners-safe/ and go on my merry way.

The TSA definitely seems to intentionally make me wait unnecessarily long for my patdowns to commence.

The attitude among some TSA employees can be truly confrontational when I'm nothing but polite.

One of them literally shoved their hand so fast and so far up my leg, it stung my private area for a good little while after. Now, whenever their script comes to the point where they ask if there is anything they should know, I have to ask them to not do that please, since it has happened before.

If there is a list of people to be first in line for UBI instead of whatever they do now, I'm okay if it's everybody at the TSA, and I'm guessing that they would be cool with that, too.

Y'all should just get pre-check (or GE) so you can walk through the metal detector instead.

Whistling loudly helps too.

We could fail to do something about the problem. That is a thing that could go wrong.

I want to know too.

There's a standard Mock Location feature in Android usable for it. We're making a better per-app Location Scopes feature as a replacement. Mock Location is global which has bad usability.

> Want location? Give the app a location point I've fixed for that app.

How do you do that in graphene os?

There's a standard Mock Location feature in Android usable for it. We're making a better per-app Location Scopes feature as a replacement. Mock Location is global which has bad usability.

That's doesn't seem to be a thing [yet]. All I managed to find was this comment from the developer which talks about it (CTRL+F, "location"):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42536302

There's a standard Mock Location feature in Android usable for it. We're making a better per-app Location Scopes feature as a replacement. Mock Location is global which has bad usability.

That's true. Do those caveats from that older comment still apply? Will apps be able to tell that location is being spoofed when using location scopes?

Hopefully not.. Otherwise it defeats the whole purpose. Right now there is no way for apps to find out media and contact scopes, so it might be something similar.

Where?

In the US.

There's a big world out of US you know?

Yes, I know. I thought you were asking where do ads need to be labelled as such, and I gave an example.

And in the EU.

Banned in UAE (at least on DU)

That's rather sad, its just a museum exhibit about the www, so prohibition might look like a pathetic attempt at revisionism.

What is DU?

Looks like DU is an UAE telecom company.

https://www.du.ae/personal

ICE = internal combustion engine

That doesn't seem correct. It's just matrix multiplications at the end. Doesn't matter if it's a different computer, GPU or even math on a napkin. Same seed, input and weights should give the same output. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/defeating-nondeterminism-in... A nice write up explaining how it’s not as simple as it sounds

There are many ways to compute the same matrix multiplication that apply the sum reduction in different orders, which can produce different answers when using floating point values. This is because floating point addition is not truly associative because of rounding.

Is that really going to matter in FP32, FP16 or BF16? I would think models would be written so they'd be at least somewhat numerically stable.

Also if the inference provider guarantees specific hardware this shouldn't happen.

Wait, wouldn't it be more significant in low bit numbers, which is the whole reason they're avoided in maths applications? In any work I've ever done, low bit numbers were entirely the reason exact order was important, where float64 or float128makes it mostly negligible.

You're assuming consistent hardware & software profiles. The way these things work at scale is essentially a compiler/instruction scheduling problem where you can think of different CPU/GPU combinations as the pipelines for what is basically a data center scale computer. The function graph is broken up into parts, compiled for different hardware profiles w/ different kernels, & then deployed & stitched together to maximize hardware utilization while minimizing cost. Service providers are not doing this b/c they want to but b/c they want to be profitable so every hardware cycle that is not used for querying or optimization is basically wasted money.

You'll never get agreement from any major companies on your proposal b/c that would mean they'd have to provide a real SLA for all of their customers & they'll never agree to that.